STEPANAKERT. – President of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic Bako Sahakyan signed decrees to award deceased soldiers.

Servicemen of NKR Defense Army Norayr Khachatryan, Robert Mkrtchyan, Karen Shahinyan and Harout Hakobyan were posthumously awarded “For Service in the Battle” medals for courage shown during the defense of the Nagorno-Karabakh Republic state borders.

Press service of the NKR Defense Army reported earlier that the Azerbaijani Armed Forces shelled at one of the northeastern protection areas of the NKR Defense Army unit on Friday at about 5:30pm. The fire was opened from Turkish-made reactive rocket propelled howitzers (TR-107).

NKR Defense Army soldiers Norayr Khachatryan (born in 1995), Robert Mkrtchyan (born in 1995), Harut Hakobyan (born in 1997), and Karen Shahinyan (born in 1997) died from shrapnel wounds. There are wounded, too.